Roman Vishniac (re)discovered
4 April until 24 August 2014

Known the world over, the photographs of Jewish
life in Eastern Europe taken by Russian-American photographer Roman
Vishniac (1897-1990) shortly before World War II determined his
reputation for decades. Steven Spielberg used these iconic images
for his film Schindler's List. Recently discovered material,
however, shows that his body of work is much broader. Vishniac's
oeuvre spans over fifty years and covers diverse subjects ranging
from Berlin street life in the 1920s, the rise of the Nazis and the
lives of Jewish refugees in Europe and the United States in the
1930s and 40s. In the Netherlands he photographed the former Jewish
agrarian training camp Nieuwesluis in Wieringermeer. This
retrospective demonstrates that Vishniac ranks among the great
masters of modernist photography.

The exhibition was mounted at the International
Center of Photography in New York in 2013 and curated by Maya
Benton.

Known the world over, the photographs of Jewish life in Eastern
Europe taken by Russian-American photographer Roman Vishniac
(1897-1990) shortly before World War II determined his reputation
for decades. Steven Spielberg used these iconic images for his film
Schindler's List. Recently discovered photographs spanning the
1920s-1970s reveal a much broader body of work, which includes
images from Berlin, France, the Netherlands and the United
States.

Vishniac's oeuvre spans over fifty years and covers diverse
subjects ranging from Berlin street life in the 1920s, the rise of
the Nazis and the lives of Jewish refugees in Europe and the United
States in the 1930s and 40s. In the Netherlands he photographed the
former Jewish agrarian training camp Nieuwesluis in Wieringermeer.
The retrospective Roman Vishniac (re)discovered presents this
unknown work and demonstrates why Vishniac should be counted among
the great modernist masters of photography in the 20th century.

Introductie conservator Maya Benton

The exhibition was mounted at the International Center of
Photography in New York in 2013 and curated by Maya Benton. In the
video, Benton introduces the exhibition.

Photos from Roman Vishniac (re)discovered

The exhibition is made possible with support from...

This exhibition is made possible with
support from Mara Vishniac Kohn, whose generosity founded the Roman
Vishniac Archive at ICP, and from the Andrew and Marina Lewin
Family Foundation, Estanne and Martin Fawer, The David Berg
Foundation, Righteous Persons Foundation, National Endowment for
the Arts, Olitsky Family Foundation, the ICP Exhibitions Committee,
James and Merryl Tisch, Koret Foundation, and additional anonymous
donors.